Text on Collaborative Projects
SCORE FOR 51°57'N 08°40'W (2010/11)
Pallasades at Triskel Arts Centre
18.12.10 - 20.01.11
The Black Mariah is pleased to present Pallasades, Score for 51°57'N 08°40'W, at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.
Pallasades have created a live, interactive sound installation in the Triskel Gallery, a former ESB substation. Developing a practice based upon collaboration, process and site-specificity, Pallasades engage with the historical associations of the building, activating the space using sound and electrical impulses. Several D...IY theremins create a grid-like structure where the audience’s movements in the space activate an improvised score.
The overlapping of themes surrounding the work are explored through individual texts in a parallel publication. Included with this, is a recording of their interaction with the electrical instruments as they are switched on for the first time.
Pallasades is Imelda Barnard, Fiona Chambers, Rachael Gilbourne, Michelle Hall, Tracy Hanna and Sharon Murphy, with guest collaborator Rob Costello. The group emerged out of an internship with Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, where they had their first exhibition in August 2008.
16.4.1 (2009)
4 - 20 December 2009
16 Artists – 4 Spaces – 1 Venue
Space 1 – re-invents an existing space
Space 2 – explores the representation of narratives
Space 3 – reacts and extends the perimeter of the exhibition
Space 4 – focuses primarily on display and presentation.
16.4.1 spans 4 indoor and outdoor spaces within the PLANE / SITE Galleries in a situation-specific collective. The selected artists have been encouraged to continue working in their usual disciplines and as a result of group meetings along with an online blog, natural groupings of artist practices have emerged. These groupings are presented within each of the spaces in the gallery which include site specific installations that re-invent the gallery space. There are a wide variety of disciplines ranging from illustration, multimedia, painting to textiles.
Participating artists: Mark Beatty, Ella Burke, Claudia Boese, Ruth Doorley, Carol Freeman, Orla Gargan, Nicholas Grey, Elaine Hurley, Kenneth Lambert, Victoria Macarthur, Conor Mahon, Fionnuala Mahon, Elaine McCague, Elaine McHugh, Sharon Murphy and Nicky Teegan.
A special performance will be held on the opening night, devised by artists Meabh Redmond and Niamh Murphy.
Curated by Fionnuala Mahon and Sharon Murphy.
PALLASADES (2008)
Press Release:
Imelda Barnard, Laura Carey, Fiona Chambers, Rachael Gilbourne,
Michelle Hall, Tracy Hanna and Sharon Murphy
An artist-initiated project at
PALLAS CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS
Preview: Friday 22nd August, 6 - 9pm, reception followed by live music.
Exhibition continues: 23rd – 30th August 2008, open daily 12 - 6pm
Emerging art collective, Pallasades, present their first collaborative project; a site-specific installation that combines light with structure and shape, directing human responses to spatial presence. Using the gallery space as a temporary darkroom, low-tech photographic works signify this active engagement with the making-process.
Following Pallas Contemporary Projects' approach to onsite work, this exhibition developed through a series of group cohabitations within the gallery. Working at length together, in some cases overnight, the experience of the space was intensified, highlighting it as an entity in its own right. Sensory deprivation, amounting to feelings of dislocation and unease, created an awareness of the absent; the lack of daylight causing a disarming perception of Time, and encouraging the innate human desire for natural light. Using materials primarily found in, and sympathetic to, the gallery space, the work emerged out of this shared experience. It is an attempt to invert perceptions of the space - Pallasades say, 'Let there be Light!'
Pallas Contemporary Projects was set up to allow artists a space to experiment and take risks with their practice. Most of our exhibitions evolve in relation to the idiosyncratic specifics of our gallery space and artists benefit from an extended period of on-site work in which to test and try out ideas ahead of their public exhibition; as a result of this approach the artists have the possibility of producing works that would not have been generated within their own production context. Pallasades is a group of young emerging artists, writers and curators, which has developed out of the internship programme at Pallas Contemporary Projects. In this instance the invited participants were given free reign to develop an exhibition for the space. The Pallas Contemporary Projects curated programme continues in
September with Revolutionary Nostalgia, curated by Mary Cremin.
Preview: Friday 22nd August, 6 - 9pm
Dates: 23rd – 30th August 2008
Venue: Pallas Contemporary Projects - 111 Grangegorman Road Lower, Dublin 7
Days: Monday - Saturday
Time: open daily 12 - 6pm
Further information please contact: pallasades7@gmail.com /
www.pallasades.blogspot.com
AFFILIATIONS:
MURPHY AND BOESE AT REUNION GALLERY, FELIXSTOWE (2009)
28th April to 23rd May 2009
Sharon Murphy and UK-based German painter Claudia Boese met and worked along-side each other as artists-in-residence in the Irish midlands in 2007. Strong empathy and similar concerns emerged between these two artists; that of exploring and defining edges on surfaces. This exhibition re-unites both artists once again as they display their subsequent work through painting, methods of construction and installation.
Claudia Boese’s practice focuses on the aesthetics of environment, intrigued by the disparity between locations and subjects as presented in imagery in contrast to their lived reality. Through these enquiries, allied to her handling of materials, she creates images that evoke something other than pure visual representation. Originally born in Germany she has lived and worked in Suffolk since 2002. This has allowed her to engage with the qualities and character of a border region, in this case rural and coastal, together with its cultural history.
Dublin based Sharon Murphy has exhibited widely in Ireland through sculpture, painting and installation. She arranges linear elements through processes that include weaving and the stacking of unfixed materials, all the while playing with strengths and weakness found in the materials. In her new work Murphy has looked at environments and objects which hold attractive linear and spatial qualities. The resulting work contains hints at urban architecture and small objects like printed text and African string instruments.
Reunion Gallery is the only dedicated Art Gallery in Felixstowe. It is situated in the heart of Felixstowe’s Artist Quarter, near the junction of Gainsborough Road and Felixstowe Road. The Gallery was set up in 2002 by artists Pat Todd and Verena Daniels with an objective to provide artists with a contemporary exhibiting space in Felixstowe.
Listings Information:
Exhibition: Affiliations (Sharon Murphy and Claudia Boese)
Preview: Sunday 26th April 12-2pm
Dates: 26th April – 23rd May 2009
Venue: Reunion Gallery 36 Gainsborough Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk IP11 &HR England
Pallasades at Triskel Arts Centre
18.12.10 - 20.01.11
The Black Mariah is pleased to present Pallasades, Score for 51°57'N 08°40'W, at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.
Pallasades have created a live, interactive sound installation in the Triskel Gallery, a former ESB substation. Developing a practice based upon collaboration, process and site-specificity, Pallasades engage with the historical associations of the building, activating the space using sound and electrical impulses. Several D...IY theremins create a grid-like structure where the audience’s movements in the space activate an improvised score.
The overlapping of themes surrounding the work are explored through individual texts in a parallel publication. Included with this, is a recording of their interaction with the electrical instruments as they are switched on for the first time.
Pallasades is Imelda Barnard, Fiona Chambers, Rachael Gilbourne, Michelle Hall, Tracy Hanna and Sharon Murphy, with guest collaborator Rob Costello. The group emerged out of an internship with Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, where they had their first exhibition in August 2008.
16.4.1 (2009)
4 - 20 December 2009
16 Artists – 4 Spaces – 1 Venue
Space 1 – re-invents an existing space
Space 2 – explores the representation of narratives
Space 3 – reacts and extends the perimeter of the exhibition
Space 4 – focuses primarily on display and presentation.
16.4.1 spans 4 indoor and outdoor spaces within the PLANE / SITE Galleries in a situation-specific collective. The selected artists have been encouraged to continue working in their usual disciplines and as a result of group meetings along with an online blog, natural groupings of artist practices have emerged. These groupings are presented within each of the spaces in the gallery which include site specific installations that re-invent the gallery space. There are a wide variety of disciplines ranging from illustration, multimedia, painting to textiles.
Participating artists: Mark Beatty, Ella Burke, Claudia Boese, Ruth Doorley, Carol Freeman, Orla Gargan, Nicholas Grey, Elaine Hurley, Kenneth Lambert, Victoria Macarthur, Conor Mahon, Fionnuala Mahon, Elaine McCague, Elaine McHugh, Sharon Murphy and Nicky Teegan.
A special performance will be held on the opening night, devised by artists Meabh Redmond and Niamh Murphy.
Curated by Fionnuala Mahon and Sharon Murphy.
PALLASADES (2008)
Press Release:
Imelda Barnard, Laura Carey, Fiona Chambers, Rachael Gilbourne,
Michelle Hall, Tracy Hanna and Sharon Murphy
An artist-initiated project at
PALLAS CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS
Preview: Friday 22nd August, 6 - 9pm, reception followed by live music.
Exhibition continues: 23rd – 30th August 2008, open daily 12 - 6pm
Emerging art collective, Pallasades, present their first collaborative project; a site-specific installation that combines light with structure and shape, directing human responses to spatial presence. Using the gallery space as a temporary darkroom, low-tech photographic works signify this active engagement with the making-process.
Following Pallas Contemporary Projects' approach to onsite work, this exhibition developed through a series of group cohabitations within the gallery. Working at length together, in some cases overnight, the experience of the space was intensified, highlighting it as an entity in its own right. Sensory deprivation, amounting to feelings of dislocation and unease, created an awareness of the absent; the lack of daylight causing a disarming perception of Time, and encouraging the innate human desire for natural light. Using materials primarily found in, and sympathetic to, the gallery space, the work emerged out of this shared experience. It is an attempt to invert perceptions of the space - Pallasades say, 'Let there be Light!'
Pallas Contemporary Projects was set up to allow artists a space to experiment and take risks with their practice. Most of our exhibitions evolve in relation to the idiosyncratic specifics of our gallery space and artists benefit from an extended period of on-site work in which to test and try out ideas ahead of their public exhibition; as a result of this approach the artists have the possibility of producing works that would not have been generated within their own production context. Pallasades is a group of young emerging artists, writers and curators, which has developed out of the internship programme at Pallas Contemporary Projects. In this instance the invited participants were given free reign to develop an exhibition for the space. The Pallas Contemporary Projects curated programme continues in
September with Revolutionary Nostalgia, curated by Mary Cremin.
Preview: Friday 22nd August, 6 - 9pm
Dates: 23rd – 30th August 2008
Venue: Pallas Contemporary Projects - 111 Grangegorman Road Lower, Dublin 7
Days: Monday - Saturday
Time: open daily 12 - 6pm
Further information please contact: pallasades7@gmail.com /
www.pallasades.blogspot.com
AFFILIATIONS:
MURPHY AND BOESE AT REUNION GALLERY, FELIXSTOWE (2009)
28th April to 23rd May 2009
Sharon Murphy and UK-based German painter Claudia Boese met and worked along-side each other as artists-in-residence in the Irish midlands in 2007. Strong empathy and similar concerns emerged between these two artists; that of exploring and defining edges on surfaces. This exhibition re-unites both artists once again as they display their subsequent work through painting, methods of construction and installation.
Claudia Boese’s practice focuses on the aesthetics of environment, intrigued by the disparity between locations and subjects as presented in imagery in contrast to their lived reality. Through these enquiries, allied to her handling of materials, she creates images that evoke something other than pure visual representation. Originally born in Germany she has lived and worked in Suffolk since 2002. This has allowed her to engage with the qualities and character of a border region, in this case rural and coastal, together with its cultural history.
Dublin based Sharon Murphy has exhibited widely in Ireland through sculpture, painting and installation. She arranges linear elements through processes that include weaving and the stacking of unfixed materials, all the while playing with strengths and weakness found in the materials. In her new work Murphy has looked at environments and objects which hold attractive linear and spatial qualities. The resulting work contains hints at urban architecture and small objects like printed text and African string instruments.
Reunion Gallery is the only dedicated Art Gallery in Felixstowe. It is situated in the heart of Felixstowe’s Artist Quarter, near the junction of Gainsborough Road and Felixstowe Road. The Gallery was set up in 2002 by artists Pat Todd and Verena Daniels with an objective to provide artists with a contemporary exhibiting space in Felixstowe.
Listings Information:
Exhibition: Affiliations (Sharon Murphy and Claudia Boese)
Preview: Sunday 26th April 12-2pm
Dates: 26th April – 23rd May 2009
Venue: Reunion Gallery 36 Gainsborough Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk IP11 &HR England